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Unpaid labourer tries to break into Government House
News, Online Reporters, Published on 12/06/2025
» A lone man with an electric saw tried to break into Government House in Bangkok on Thursday, saying he was protesting because he had not been paid for working on the construction of a government hospital.
Gunman suspect held in high-security prison
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 14/01/2025
» Ekkalak Phaenoi, the suspected gunman in the murder of the former Cambodian opposition MP in Bangkok last week, is now being detained in the Bangkok Remand Prison with round-the-clock safety monitoring.
Don't ignore trafficking
News, Editorial, Published on 09/01/2025
» The brief disappearance of Chinese actor Wang Xing in a scammer city in Myanmar should serve as a stark warning about how emboldened fraudsters have become in exploiting Thailand as a hub for their vicious operations. The details of how this 31-year-old actor was duped and taken from Suvarnabhumi Airport to Myanmar's Myawaddy read like the plot of a film.
Aung Ko Ko's death shines light on army impunity
News, Matthew Smith, Published on 25/11/2024
» In January this year, the bruised and bloody body of a Myanmar man named Aung Ko Ko was found near the bustling town of Mae Sot, Thailand -- just over the border from a deadly revolutionary war in Myanmar. But it wasn't armed conflict in Myanmar that claimed Aung Ko Ko's 37-year-old life. Evidence points to the Thai military.
Police to regulate safety vests
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 02/01/2023
» The Royal Thai Police (RTP) is working to ensure the uniformity of high-visibility safety vests worn by its officers to improve public confidence in the force, said deputy national police chief Pol Gen Torsak Sukvimol.
Five more bodies plucked from the sea, six days after navy corvette sinking
News, Wassana Nanuam and Supapong Chaolan, Published on 25/12/2022
» Five more bodies were discovered from the sea yesterday, bringing the death toll to 11 as the search for the missing 18 sailors of HTMS Sukhothai entered its sixth day.
Body found near sunken navy ship
News, Wassana Nanuam, Published on 24/12/2022
» One more body was found yesterday at 4.15pm floating near the site where HTMS Sukhothai sank while the search for the remaining missing sailors continued into its fifth day, covering the three coastal provinces of Prachuap Khiri Khan, Chumphon and Surat Thani.
There's always something worth a laugh
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 11/12/2022
» Recently I watched on television the 1992 film Chaplin, starring Robert Downey Jr as the great English comic actor, best known in Thailand simply as Charlie. It brought back happy memories of the mid-1970s when a series of the Chaplin movies were re-released in Thailand and proved a huge hit. The Thai public loved Charlie.
Granny asset-stripper, drive-by killing, monk's valour
News, Mae Moo, Published on 04/09/2022
» Lender throws weight around
Search continues for missing Belgian man
News, Panumet Tanraksa, Published on 24/07/2022
» CHIANG MAI: The search for a Belgian man who fell from an inflatable raft into the Taeng River during heavy rain continued yesterday.